"When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. The world teaches you that the way you exist in it is disgusting — you watch boys cringe backward in your dorm room when you talk about your period, blue water pretending to be blood in a maxi pad commercial. It is little things, and it is constant. In a food court in a mall, after you go to the gynecologist for the first time, you and your friend talk about how much it hurts, and over her shoulder you watch two boys your age turn to look at you and wrinkle their noses: the reality of your life is impolite to talk about. The world says that you don’t have a right to the space you occupy, any place with men in it is not yours, you and your body exist only as far as what men want to do with it. At fifteen, you find fifteen-year-old boys you have never met somehow believe you should bend your body to their will. At almost thirty, you find fifteen-year-old boys you have never met still somehow believe you should bend your body to their will. They are children. They are children."

Stevie Nicks

Holy shit, Stevie just got like 100x better. I THOUGHT IT WASN’T POSSIBLE.

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"If Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, were to win next month’s election, the harm to women’s reproductive rights would extend far beyond the borders of the United States.

In this country, they would support the recriminalization of abortion with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and they would limit access to contraception and other services. But they have also promised to promote policies abroad that would affect millions of women in the world’s poorest countries, where lack of access to contraception, prenatal care and competent help at childbirth often results in serious illness and thousands of deaths yearly. And the wreckage would begin on Day 1 of a Romney administration."

The New York Times: “A World of Harm for Women” (via barackobama)

kateordie:

Sometimes I have the time and patience to get from an idea to a fully fleshed-out, penciled, inked and coloured comic.

Sometimes I don’t.

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"The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well. A man walking alone through Midtown Manhattan at three in the morning may have concerns for his safety, but I promise you, it’s a very different experience for a woman taking the same walk, and it’s different again for a man wearing a dress. Think about it. That’s a societal factor, and it’s a gendered one, and this is not and can not be subject to debate. If you’re looking to argue that sexism is a thing of the past, that the world is gender-blind, you’re not only wrong, you’re lying to yourself.

An ignorant writer is a poor liar, and a poor liar makes for a bad crafter of fiction."

Greg Rucka, in a piece for io9 (via itsinthetrees)

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"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay."

Clara Barton

"The attempt by Republican men to wrestle American women back into chastity belts has not only breathed life into President Obama, it has roused and riled Hillary. And that could turn out to be the most dangerous thing the wildly self-destructive G.O.P. leaders have done."

Don’t Tread on Us - NYTimes.com

That’s right GOP, keep demeaning the women and we will release the Clinton!

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Omg we will release the Clinton.

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We will release the Clinton.

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LORD HAVE MERCY

THE CLINTON HAS RISEN

ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO FACE HER

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SHE IS THE CLINTON. SHE IS LEGION. SHE DOES NOT FORGIVE. SHE DOES NOT FORGET. EXPECT HER.

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WE ARE ONE. WE ARE THE CLINTON.

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can The Clinton be an actual thing please

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A wild The Clinton appeared!

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She uses, MISANDRY JIHAD! It’s supereffective!

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UH, reblogging again for the sweet graffix.

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"It is hard for men and women leaders. But it is harder for women leaders. There are so many built in expectations, stereotypes, caricatures."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking to a packed crowd at Lincoln Center in the closing remarks at Newsweek & The Daily Beast’s Women in the World Summit. (via jessbennett)

"Taught from their infancy that beauty is a woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Women)

(Source: lightening-warfare, via dallowayward)

A little bright spot in a shitty week for women…

xkaren08:

Just to recap the last week: 

• A man who beats women was celebrated on national television, and we were told to ‘get over it’ and we ‘shouldn’t judge.’
• A congressional panel on birth control coverage failed to include any women
• A major political donor says on television that in his day, women were told to put an aspirin between their knees to prevent pregnancy.   
• A presidential candidate wants to lecture on the ‘dangers of birth control’ 
• Virginia lawmakers have decided to require women seeking an abortion submit to an unnecessary medical procedure which MAY INCLUDE FORCIBLE PENETRATION.

Oh, but we’re post-feminism, right?  No need for it anymore today, right?  Pardon me while I dust off my old “keep your rosary off my ovaries” bumper sticker.   

Seriously, it’s been a shitty week for women.  That’s why I was so happy to read a post on Cracked.com this evening calling out commenters for being sexist assholes.         

I loved Luke McKinney’s original post on sexist comics costumes and his response post to sexist comments on the original post is even better.  

If you think hot women have it easy because everyone wants to have sex at them, you’re both wrong and also the reason you’re wrong. Most people don’t base their quality of life around how hard it is to get laid, because they actually do get laid, and it isn’t that hard to do. Being a straight male is tremendous fun and sexuality’s lowest difficulty setting: You know what you want and everyone else in your demographic will praise you for being able to do it. No one else on the spectrum of sexual orientation can say that. If women hate you for cursing about how stupid “bitches” are, it’s not because you’re the victim of an anti-male conspiracy: It’s because you’re you.

Read more: The 8 Stupidest Defenses Against Accusations of Sexism | Cracked.com

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